Unfortunately, the U.S. has some added company in the witch persecution business but at least ours was over 300 years ago. This is absolutely ridiculous.
From Channel4 (UK)...
It's a case which is causing controversy across the world. A Saudi judge has condemned to death a Lebanese TV presenter for "sorcery".
Ali Hussain Sibat had his own talk show on Sheherezade TV, based in Lebanon and transmitted by satellite across the Arab world. The programme's title was self-explanatory: "Ali Hussain Sibat gives advice and predictions about the future". People would ring in with their problems and dilemmas, and it was especially popular in Saudi Arabia.
The problem is fortune-telling is regarded as witchcraft by the strict tenets of the sharia practiced in Saudi Arabia. When Mr Sibat went on a pilgrimage to Medina in 2008, he was recognised by the Police for the Protection of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, and promptly arrested.
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